Identifier: cu31924104075365 (find matches)
Title: Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956. fmo Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: Kachinas Hopi Indians Hopi mythology
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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KWEWU HEUOTYPE CO.. BOSTON. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLI
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SOWINWU HELIOTYPE CO., BOSTON. fEwKEs) 80Y0HIM KATCINAS 103 mouth and two horizontal black marks with upturned ends for eyes.The face is green, with red, yellow, and black border; the ears havependants of corn husks. The blanket is white, with embroideredborder. Each figure carrieii in one hand a skin pouch with sacred meal, andin the other a rattle or a number of deer scapulfe. KWEwO (Plate XL) The picture representing the Wolf katcina has a well-drawn wolfshead with projecting mouth, and a wolfs paw, painted black, on eachcheek. To the tips of the ears are appended feathers, stained red, andthere are eagle feathers on the side of the head. The kilt is made of horsehair, stained red, hanging from a beltwhich supports the breechclout. The legs and forearms are spotted.Kwewu is generally personated with the Antelope and Deer katcinasrunning back and forth along the line of dancers, assuming theposture represented in the drawing. tcOb*(Plate XLI) The picture of Tciib, the Antelope katci

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